The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1950, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,560 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — - JUNEAU, ALASKA, F RIDAY, JULY 21, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS | Snipers Mow Down Yanks During Retreat Sendoff for American Troops g T An Army band (foreground) salu aboard a transport as they leave a Japanese port for the Korean battle front. (P Wirephoto via ra | | i | | | 'l tes American troop reinforcements | | | i [ | dio from Tokyo. CHANGE OF VENUE ASKED BY SEVERAL TRUST DEFENDANTS Seattle Liquor Firm Wans Trial on Home Ground- One Juror Alleged Felon ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 21— (M—Defendants have fought back with a handful of motions asking for a switch in courtroom scenery in Alaska’s big anti-trust suits. A change of venue was asked, and allegations. were made that one of the grand jurors was a convicted felon, and thus disqualified for jury duty. The juror was not named. Attorney R. E. Robertson filed af- fidavits in support of a motion to transfer the anti-trust suit against the Seattle liquor firm of K. and L. Distributors from the Third Federal District Court here to the West Dis- trict of Washington, Northern Di- vision. L Speaking in behalf of the firm's officials, Irving and Stanley Le- vine, Robertson said it would be an unjust and unfair expense to travel to Alaska to establish their inno- cence. The Washington Merry - Go- Round Bv DREW PEARSON ICopyright, 1850. vy Bell Syndicate, Ine.) "ASHINGTON — General Mac- Arthur’s banning of newspapermen from Korea emphasized what the American public probably has not realized—namely that there has been virtual censorship over Am- erican newsmen in Japan for some time. Unlike news out of Germany, which has not been censored, Mac- Arthur has constantly rowed with American newsmen over their right to report what was going on in his area. One of the men who was at first barzed from the Korean front last week, Tom Lambert of the Asso- ciated Press, previously had signed a long protest to the American So- ciety of Newspaper Editors com- plaining of MacArthur's censorship. Others signing the report included representatives of the New York Times, National Broadcasting Com- pany, Time and Life magazines. They pointed out, among other things, that a newsman “who had written stories which occupation officials considered critical . .. had his home raided by the Army’s CID and that he—the correspondent— was subjected to interrogation and threats.” ‘They also pointed out that where- as “The governmeént section (of the occupation forces) actively en- —ee e (Continued on Page Four) 1 The defendants were among six | | firms and 12 individuals charged in | | one anti-trust indictment. | | Also filed were seven motions by | | attorney Ed Arnell in behalf of the | | Healy River Coal Corp., Evan Jones | { Coal Co., Usibelli Coal Mine, Inc.,| | A. E. Lathrop, Fairbanks publisher; | | Harry J. Hill and Emil Usibelli. The motion for a change of | venue was accompanied by affi- | davits by Norman Brown, a newspa- | | per editor; H, I. O'Neill and Mabel | | Osburn, | Brown's affidavit declared the | anti-trust proceedings were “widely | publicized by newspapers and ra-; dio,” and suggested ‘“classes of | | people in this area, confronted with | personal financial problems, will| | consider the case in the light of price effects on daily living.” | Brown alleged hearing a grand juror express a personal view that those indicted would be convicted. | O’Neill added that jurors may be | motivated by personal desires to reduce costs. i Arnell said he had veen mrormeu{ that one member of the grand juryi wa$ unqualified as he previously| had been convicted of a felony. He sought a ‘disclosure of the grand| jury vote, declaring that concur-| rence of only 12 jurors would he a| basis t6 disqualify the alleged felon's | vote. Legal observers said the substan-, tiation of this charge might alter!| the entire anti-trust proceedings| here. IRUMAN'S MESSAGE DRINTED IN MOSCOW; COMMENT 1S MADE (By Associated Press) Moscow's press prominently dis-i played President Truman’s message to Congress. ,The press printed a| Tass dispatch saying the President | repeated his “well known declara- | tions which give evidence of the fact that the United States govern- ment, not limiting itself to aggres-| sion in Korea, is undertaking mea- sures of war in the Philippines, For- mosa and Indochina.” The Presi-| dent, it said, “does not hesitate to j make threats. IDAUGHTER OF POLIO FOUNDATION LEADER STRICKEN BY POLIO RICHMOND, Va., July 21—®— The daughter of Basil O'Connor, President of the National Infantile | Paralysis Foundation, is in a hos-; pital here today undergoing treat- ment for the disease. She is Mrs. Sidney Culver, 30, and mother of five. Mrs. Culver was brought by ambulance here yester- l | !Inr:mtry and two are armored. day afternoon. A definite diagnosis of polio was made last night. | NATIONAL GUARDSIN CALL NOW Army Issues Order Today-| Exact Number, How- | ever, Kept Secret | The Army today began calling, some National Guard troops and re- serves to active duty. The units and | the exact number were kept secret.| It announced the men called | would be given at least 30 days to get their personal affairs in order.| The announcement said “non-| divisional” units would be called.| There was no formal explanation | for this decision, but the situation is this: A National Guard division is ordi- | narily made up entirely of men | from one state. A few states have| more than one division. Some do| not have an entire division. | There might be political repercus- sions if, for instance, all the guard: men in one state were called up as a division while no guardsmen in an | adjoining state were placed on ac- tive duty. By taking smaller units from sev- eral states, the strength in man- power of a full division can be put on active duty with each state con- | tributing a part of the force. | It is the first time in the National | Guard’s history that only a part of | it has been taken into federal serv- | ice. The entire guard was called out | in 1916 for Mexican border duty, in| 1917 for the First World War and | in 1940 for World War Two. | The total number of National| Guardsmen as of March 31 was/ 332,000. The number of reserves was | 600,000. The National Guard is organized | into 27 divisions. Of these, 25 are| LIEGIVES | HIS REPORT, COMBAT AID LAKE SUCCESS, July 21 — (® — | U. N. Secretary General Trygve Lie | said today nine countries have an- swered directly his week-old appeal or effective aid in Korea, but none has offered ground combat troops. | Lie added he does not know| whether the United States has direct negotiations with any coun- try for combat troops-but he as- sumes there -are conversations go- ing on at Washington, Answering questions at a news conference, Lie insisted he does not | think he has had a poor response. He said he will not give up hope for responses until another fort- night has passed because it takes governments a long time to con- sider all angles. Lie also reported several prelim- inary responses he is not making public now. He said no country has given him a flat turn-down on his request. The U. N. secretary said the United Press had distributed a story saying Lie and the secretariat were secretly recruiting a volun- teer army to serve in Korea. Lie observed there was “not a word of truth” in this story from beginning to end. Announcing responses to his call to nations, Lie listed, among others, a hospital unit offer from Sweden, an ambulance from Denmark, ship- ping tonnages from Norway, an armed sloop from France and six transport planes and crews from Greece. Troops of Redson | Berder of Irania (By Associated Press) Reports of “minor Soviet troop movements” on the Soviet-Iranian border have been received by the Iranian general staff, but the gen- eral staff is said to look on the | movements as a normal shift of border garrisons. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stump of Ketchikan are at the Baranof Hotel. ARM e i Trocps of the and some beardless teenagers, stripped of the Indian Head patches, tradel Off to Far East N, | Second Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., som mark of the division, await | e veterans of World War IL orders to board transport, at Tacoma, Wash. Busses were pressed into service to transport troops to the docks. P Wirephoto. EDFO Senate, Vote to Keep Men Year After Time Is Up WASHINGTON, July 21—(®—The Senate armed services committee voted unanimously today to take all restrictions off the size of the wmed forces and lengthen all en- listments one year. The House armed services com- mittee also voted, 18 to 1, to keep all enlisted personnel in servide or a year after their enlistments :xpire. It still was considering the ‘equest of President Truman to lift ceilings on size of the armed lorces. Rep. Towe (R-NJ) cast the only vote against extending enlistments. In taking the action on the two oills, the Senate committee also agreed to strike out of one of them 1 restriction that the stremgth of ;he regular Marine Corps shall not axceed 20 per cent of the author- zed size of the regular Navy. Never too Many Senator Russel (D-Ga.) told his colleagues that under present worlc conditions he does not believe the United States can have too: many Marines. The Marines are trainta for amphipious landings. The committee action would sus- pend indefinitely present limitations which fix the top strength of the armed forces at 2,005,882 men. The quick action came afte: Navy, Army and Air Force officers said they probably would lose 193, 000 trained fighting men ' durine the next year through expiratf®r of voluntary enlistments. The Senate committee amendell the legislation to make it apply also to Naticnal Guardsmen and reserves when called to active duty As approved by the Senate group President Truman could extend for one year the terms of volunteers now in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines until next July 9. That is when the present draft or selective service act expires, yn- der which men from 19 through 25 can be called for 21 months duty. The committees acted almos! simultaneously in freezing the hitches of enlisted personnel. OKEH GIVEN TRUMAN WASHINGTON, July 21 — # — The Senate voted power today for President Truman to hold in the Armed Services for an extra year all enlisted men whose terms ex- pire during the next 12 months. Action was by voice vote. Senator Tydings (D-Md), Chair- man of the Armed Services Commit- tee, got the Senate to consider the bill and then pass it by unanimous consent. CHANDLER IN TOWN H. Burr Chandler of Seattle is registered at the Baranof Hotel. He is with the Union Oil Company. I—l—(ESiNegro;flTroofis Make First | ENLISTMENTS| Sizable American Ground LENGTHENED] House Committees| Firemen, Firemen! Save My Carrots!” Off ihey Go lo the Rescue WAKEFIELD, Mass., July 21—® —A meek voice asked Wakefield firemen over the ’'phone if they would do a woman a great favor. They indicated they might. “Well,” asked Mrs. Arthur E. Goodwin, “will you turn off the gas in my home and save the carrots?” Mrs. Goodwin explained that she} was in Topsfield—20 miles away— ind had left the gas burning under 1 pan of carrots. The firemen saved the carrots— and possibly the house from an ex- plosion. BRITISH BACK UP TRUMAN (By Associated Press) Great Britain has announced to Mloscow she stands behind the Uni- ted States insiftence that any 1egotiations looking to a halt in Sorean hostilities must be pre- eded by a withdrawal of the North Zoreans to the 38th Parallcl. Thic nswer was delivered in Moscow tc . Soviet proposal that Communist China be admitted to the United Vations, replacing the Nationalists. 1s.an essential to the opening of Zorean peace negotiations. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 21 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is , American Can |94, Anaconda 327, Curtiss-Wright 110%, International Harvester 26%, Kennecott 60':, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 15%, U. S. | Steel 35%, Pound $2.80%. | Sales today were 2,810,000 shares. | Averages today are as follows: ins dustrials 207.65, rails 59.46, utilities 138,4& | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Prince George from Vancuover in port; sails for Skagway at 11:30 pm. Princess Norah from Vancouver scheduled to arrive Saturday after- noon. Alaska from Seattle scheduled to arrive Sunday. Chilcotin. from Vancouver due 6 | pm. Sunday. Baranof scheduled to Seattle Saturday. Princess Louise scheduled to sail from Vancouver Saturday. Aleutian from westward due L southbound Sunday.- 8 | 1 i oS L e e st S st P S S .. SV~ . T S e i ) S sail from ViEI_olin War PO, S ot in Korea By TOM LAMBERT WITH A US. INFANTRY TASK FORCE IN SOUTH KOREA, July 21—M—United States Negro troops ay drove North Korean Com- munists out of Yechon and occupied that rail and highway ‘city. It was the first sizable American ground| victory in the Korea war. | The Negro doughboys captured | Yechon after a 16-hour battle| which began yesterday afternoon and ended shortly after dawn to- day. Our casualties were light. The; extent of enemy losses, was' un- known. Yechon is 60 miles northeast of Taejon and 55 miles north of Taegu. (General MacArthur’s Friday af-| ternoon communique had said one regiment of the South Korean Capi- tal Division counterattacked and re- took Yechon from the Communists. | It is not clear from this story| whether the South Koreans again lost the city and it was retaken| again by the U.S. Negro soldiers.) Today at Yechon was a far dif- ferent story from the past few dark days when gallant but outnumbered 24th Division soldiers battled the surging Reds farther west as United Nations forces trades space for time. | 10% TAX INCREASE ON INCOMES WANTED BY SOLON AT ONCE' WASHINGTON, July 21 — @ — | The Senate-House economic com- mitteée agreed unanimously today that Federal taxes should be In- creased immediately to put the country on a pay-as-you-go basis in the Korean crisis. The committee discussed no fig- ures, but Chairman O'Mahoney (D- Wyo.) told reporters he feels each | individual's tax bill should be jacked up 10 per cent at once. “At least that,” O'Mahoney added. | The committee holds what am- ounts to an advisory position on all economic matters. Actual tax legislation is handled | by separate House and Senate zroups. Chairman Doughton (D-NC) of the tax writing House ways and means also has taken a stand that war costs should be on a pay-as- you-go basis as far as possible. Security Force Qut For King's Refurn (By Associated Press) In Brussels, Belgium, strong se- curity forces were mobilized against possible demonstrations against King Leopold on the eve of his re- turn from exile. Parliament voted last night to end the regency of Prince Charles and permit Leopold to resume his throne. DEAN STILL GONE; "HE'LL - GET AWAY' | By WILLIAM R. MOORE and | O.HP. KI AN AMERICAN POST IN KOREA, 'Fellow officers today held firm | hope that Maj. Gen. William F.| | Dean, unreported nearly 24 howers | lin the thick of the Taejon fighting (“will get out.” | But fear for his safety grew by the hour. The front-line fighting commander of the U. 8. Twenty- Fourth Infantry Division was las: reported leading a bazooka team fighting off Red tanks. Dean’s staff tried to raissure themselves with this declaration: “The general can take care of COMMAND ! July 21—+ | himself. He may have to walk, but he'll get out!” The last report of Dean came from a corporal. He said he saw the general passing ammunition to a bazooka team and directing fire in Taejon, That was several hours before the city fell at midnight Thursday before the blazing tanks of the North Korean Communists. Said Cpl. Ralph Vargason of Newark Valley, N. Y.: “All of our regular bazooka teams were so busy General Dean took a couple of men downtown and went after two tanks. I saw him passing ammunition to the men and directing fire.” The Red tanks moved on Taejon at dawn Thursday. They circled wround and around the American command post, firing as they went Dean had a record of fearless lighting. Both in World War Il and in the Korean war he exposed himself to enemy fire to lead hi: men. A few days ago he pulled some of his front line troops out of the fire in heavy fighting near the Kum River by a personally led attack. Dean, who was awarded a Dis- tinguished Service Cross in World War II for bravery, was well liked by his men. The tall, rusty haired zeneral put his fighting before his personal safety. The 50-year-old general had ser- ved as military governor of Korea ‘rom 1947 to 1949 and temporarily was commander of U. S. Army ‘orces in Korea. FORTYUKON BLAZE UNDER CONTROL NOW FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 21— (P—The fire that threatened the little river settlement of Fort Yukon appeared under control today at a safe distance. Visibility, which kept emergency plane flights away from the village during its hours of peril earlier this week, was up to about 15 miles to- day. Most of the smoke also cleared from the Fairbanks area. The Weather Bureau said a wind shift probably was changing the fire direction toward Canada. Behind the flames lay an esti- mated more than 30,000 blackened acres from one of the Territory’s worst fire seasons. Most of the burned area is within 150 miles of Fairbanks, which at times has been “browned out” by smoke. WEATHER REPORT In Juneau—Maximum, 54; minimum, 50. At Airport—Maximum, 54; minimum, 48. FORECAST (Juneau and Vicinity) Mostly fair tonight with lowest temperature 52 de- grees; cloudy Saturday with light rain by afternoon. Highest Saturday near 60 de- grees. PRECI1PITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today @ ® City of Juneau—042 inches; | ® since July 1--5.80 inches. L e At Airport — 0.24 inches; e ® sincé July 1—4.17 inches. . i REDS BATTER DEFENSE FROM 3 DIRECTIONS |U.S. Lend-Lease Tanks Re- ported Used by Attackers -Teajon Loss Is Blow (By the Assoclated Press) Harassed by a hail of sniper and ‘nemy artillery fire, American troops dug into new South Korean defense positions today and braced or expected new Communist thrusts {rom at least three directions. The battered 24th Divisidn, its Commanding Major General among -he missing, took up hill positions everal miles east of flaming Taejon, cagtured by the Communists in a aeavy tank and Infantry drive. The GI's hoped to hold these new posi- -dons until American strength builds up behind them for a counterof- fensive. The Communists stopped at Tae- jon, failing to follow through with n expected renewed attack against he new American positions, but U.8. forces warily watched for new (lanking and envelopment move- nents. Enemy snipers lined the road of ‘he American retreat and kept up 1arassing fire while enemy tank suns opened up and machinegun ire sprayed over the withdrawing iefenders. American artillery was rained on the hills where bands £ Red guerrillas were reportéd try- ng to infiltrate. All Directions Front-*dispatelies ' séid ‘the Reds sosed potent threats from the north, lortheast and southwest. The dispatches said the Reds ' sould drive down ‘from Chongju, 20 niles north of Taejon in an fat- -empt to cut the main line railway sehind the U.S. front. east of Tae- jon. Other Red columns could move lown narrow secondary roads across ‘he mountains from Tanyang, 56 niles north of Chongju, threatening the railhead at Kumchon in the iew American defense zone. South- :ast of Taejon the Reds were ‘hreatening another flanking and :nvelopment move. Communist tanks and troops had stormed into the flaming key rail junction at Taejon after a bitter wo-day battle which cost the Reds learly. One front report, not con- firmed, said four American-made .;anks, possibly lend-lease material’ siven Russia In World War II, had «' oeen used by the Communists in he Taejon drive. Cruisers go to Work On the east coast American and 3ritish crulsers shelled and knocked out the Communist communications senter at Yongdok, 25 miles north of he beachhead held by Americans of ‘he mechanized First Cavalry Divie sion. Headquarters has not reported n the progress of the First Cavalry. or the U.S. 25th, which landed this week, but Yongdok may be a First Savalry objective. Gen. MacArthur said the loss of Taejon would be a psychological blow to the South Korean people, whose government fled the city sev- eral days 4go, but the withdrawal has “no special sighificance” from the military viewpoint. The higher country to the southeast is much better suited to a delaying action. Enemy infiltration has been a serious problem to the Americans, but Gen. MacArthur said the prob- lem has been reduced to “man- ageable proportions” and soon may be unimportant. How this was to be done was kept secret, but Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker, Eighth Army Commander, was reported pleased with progress in this respect. Air Force Roars . Bad weather hampered Allied air action, but more than 100 individual flights were flown and two Russian- built Yak fighters were downed yesterday. B-29's roared over North | Korea again, dropping 160 tons of bombs on five major airfields and bridges. Yak fighters were driven off. Reconnaissance pictures showed he B-29's in their Sunday raid par- alyzed rail traffic in Seoul. Rail movements to the southern battle lines from Seoul will be prevented for some time, a communique said. American carrier-based pilots have reported indications of radar- controlled anti-aircraft fire in North Korea. The carrier planes have been carrying out widespread raids on strategic targets.